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morant nested among the rocks ; and both had young. The 

 former were usually on the face of cliffs, and being much 

 less shy than Brandt's they were comparatively secure from 

 the ever-watchful, marauding Gulls. 



Nor can one explain why the Guillemots and Puffins, 

 which lay their eggs in burrows or crevices in the rocks, 

 quite beyond the Gulls' reach, should be so much less 



Guillemots 



abundant than the Murres. The Guillemot, furthermore, 

 lays two eggs to the Murres ' one. To be less abundant than 

 Murres, however, is far from approaching rarity. In fact 

 never have I seen Guillemots so numerous as they were on 

 the Farallones. Groups of from ten to twenty of these 

 plump, so-called * ' Sea Pigeons ' ' gathered in sunny places 

 on the rocks, where, some reclining, some standing, they 

 permitted a near enough approach to enable one to see defi- 



